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Comment · 4 months ago
joey, is that you!?
Comment · 6 months ago
you are absolutely right, it is motion-sickness inducing. how did this make it in to production?
Comment · 10 months ago
This is a reference I think to the Charlie Kirk murder.
Comment · 11 months ago
I learned this trick writing shellcode - the shellcode has to be null byte (0x00) free, or it will terminate and not progress past the null byte, since it is the string terminator. of course, when you xor something with itself, the result is zero. the byte code generated by the instruction xor eax, eax doesn't contain null bytes, whereas mov eax, 0 does.
Comment · 1 year ago
Thanks for the feedback. I'll give this a try.
Comment · 1 year ago
Hey, this is my first font design, constructive criticism welcome! Thanks.
Comment · 1 year ago
My kundalini awakened when I fell 20 feet onto a 3 inch PVC pipe in more or less a seated position and got impaled - it smashed right up through my tailbone, sacrum, and spinal vertebrae, severed a ton of nerves, and whatever energy was coiled up in the base of my spine shot straight up out the top of my head!
Comment · 1 year ago
The levels are in order of difficulty per grid size, sorted by the number of backtracks it took a solver to complete (some of the harder levels on the biggest sizes took hundreds of thousands of backtracks, though I didn't really code any heuristics).
Comment · 1 year ago
Gameplay is on a grid from 5x5 to 12x12 in size. Each level has a number of "depots", from which the player lays section of "pipe" to Von Neumann neighboring tiles. Pipes cannot cross each other, and a tile cannot have more than 1 pipe. Pipes cannot be placed on depots. Click a depot to "activate" it, and then place the pipes from that depot. There are 3 ways of placing pipes - clicking on the adjacent square, dragging through adjacent squares, or clicking several tiles away in a straight line from a placed pipe or activated depot to lay pipe on each tile in the line.

Thanks for giving it a try - I would appreciate any feedback!

Comment · 1 year ago
Sorry, I'll add some instructions, the game is to lay pipes from the depots to fill the entire grid.
Comment · 1 year ago
Ah, its a bug, thanks for pointing that out (you should be able to path to a square that was previously pathed but is currently empty), working on it now.

Yes, in this game you lay "pipes" from "depots", and must fill the entire grid with pipes.

Thanks for the feedback, adding some text with the basic rules now.

I initially had the first "tutorial" level a 4x4 grid with a [3] in each corner, but the 4x4 levels were trivial and I removed them.

Comment · 1 year ago
Not doing so well lately, but I managed to hack out this little puzzle game. I've spent a lot of time thinking about simple games appealing to a wide audience that can be played with no more than paper and pencil, and haven't come up with that many great ideas, but I think this one checks out. Feedback welcome! Not that I think I can sell this to the NYT for their puzzle section, but interested in ideas monetizing this outside of adwords. Thanks for looking.

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